Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] the [noun sg] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although all but 78 paratroop snipers were killed , the Australians were forced to surrender within four days , leaving the 2/2 Independent Company and some Dutch troops to carry on the fight 160 miles ( 257km ) to the east at Dili . |
| 2 | Returning to the Maison Caressa at Nice , he persuaded the factory which had turned down the project fifteen years earlier to manufacture " a certain quantity " of 2 kilo cans of crushed tomato according to his own specification . |
| 3 | Fears in the financial markets that government policy towards the pound was in disarray also drove down the currency 3.05 cents against the dollar to $1.5775 . |
| 4 | Picking up the story thirty years on , Peter Bogdanovich 's eagerly anticipated sequel to THE LAST PICTURE SHOW substitutes elegiac lament with a wry comedy of the trials and absurdities of disillusioned middle-age . |
| 5 | Microsoft asked computer distributor , Keydata SA to set up the Institute four years ago . |
| 6 | John is quite a character and loves his role which includes shouting out the news four times a day . |
| 7 | Carefully open up the diskette three point five inches for the best effect and it 's like my Amiga one remove the top covering from the inside , scrape a lot of match powder into a bowl match powder . |
| 8 | What happens when you open up the market twenty years down the line , you realize that these industries are dinosaurs , they 're using technology that 's thirty years out of date . |
| 9 | SIR — What irony that the Iron Curtain of communo-socialism has collapsed throughout Eastern Europe , but we in Britain are on the verge of possibly turning back the clock 13 years to renew our disastrous affair with socialism . |
| 10 | I well remember hearing her stamping up the hall one afternoon shouting , ‘ I hate the bloody lot of you . |
| 11 | Sprinkle sharp sand along the slit — enough to fill in the bottom 4–5 inches ( 10–12cm ) or so . |
| 12 | Although we could barely make out the carcass 300 metres away from us , the vultures , high above the reach of our binocular-aided vision , could see it clearly . |
| 13 | there was coincidental positive reinforcement that indicated shutting down the no. 2 engine was the correct course of action . |
| 14 | The prevarication has set back the effort six months , said Sarfas , and OSF/1 for the Alphas will now emerge first , early next year . |
| 15 | Ramesh K , who took on the lease two years ago , has sold up and moved out . |
| 16 | She only took over the field 6 months ago and fears young hooligans are trying to drive her and her animals away . |
| 17 | JIM WATTON , contract manager for CCG at Scotrail , is delighted at the impact his trolley service has had on rail passengers in Scotland since the company took over the contract two years ago . |
| 18 | Bill took over the job 25 years ago . |
| 19 | The national coach has been forced to treat withdrawals as a way of life since taking over the job six-and-a-half years ago . |
| 20 | Gabriel went up the ladder two rungs at a time , and stood sweating behind his cloud . |
| 21 | ‘ I took up the sport six years ago when my local team , the Darlington Dawdlers , were short of a fourth rider . |
| 22 | A member of the Warrington Road runners , he took up the sport six years ago . |
| 23 | For part of the way we linked arms with Fred Lebow who thought up the race 23 years ago and who now has brain cancer and wanted to run it . |
| 24 | But as he prepared to switch from the more austere environs of the Treasury , where he saw out the final 16 months of the last Tory Government , Mr Mellor spoke of the importance he and the Prime Minister attached to encouraging artistic excellence and preserving the national heritage . |
| 25 | ‘ We burnt out the pto three times last year , but luckily it only takes an hour to change it . ’ |
| 26 | The couple had taken over the shop six years previously and had achieved a healthy profit through hard work . |
| 27 | We spent three nights there , initially having a lazy day exploring the beaches , and the next day cycling up the coast fifteen kilometres to Pontevedra , another classic granite Galician town , before climbing up through cool forests to a TV masts on the 2,000-foot summit of the peninsula . |
| 28 | Also the bottom 4 in this table look as though they will be fighting out the bottom 4 places in the real table . |
| 29 | On the seventh day they march around the city seven times . |
| 30 | The operating crew mistakenly shut down the no. 2 engine . |